%0 Journal Article
%T When stuff gets covered in fluff in order to build up a paradoxical existence
%A Alina Petra Marinescu
%J Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
%D 2012
%I University of Bucharest
%X Living immaterially in an over-materialized world seems to have become one of today¡¯s paradoxes. More and more often what can¡¯t be touched looks like getting greater ¡°weight¡± than palpable things, commonly known as stuff. It seems that we are living in a ¡°fluff-made world¡± as Richard Lanham, author of ¡°The Economics of Attention¡± (2006) underlined in his study; a world he perceives as being mainly made up of information and visual representation. Even if we are dealing with everyday realities, talking about the surrounding fluff tends to receive a science fictional connotation. Various authors have fantasized over this topic, but getting inspired by a true story, Emma Donoghue succeeded into masterly depicting the ways in which a desperate mom got the power to deliberately mix fluff and stuff in a spectacular way. ¡°Room¡± (2010) is a fascinating story of a young woman kidnapped, raped and locked up for years in a room together with her son.
%K Stuff
%K fluff
%K reality
%K life
%K world
%K imagination
%U http://compaso.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Compaso2012-31-Marinescu.pdf